The Wild Sovereign Soul Show

Wild Sovereign Soul co-founder and soul guide, Lian Brook-Tyler, has spent over a decade studying beauty as a soul path rather than a surface concern... she explains why beauty deserves the same conscious attention we already give relationships and money, and what can happen once we stop pretending it doesn't already command our attention.
This episode is Lian’s All The Everything show… her solo space where she dives deeply into a theme that is alive for her, which, if you know her, could be literally anything - explored through the lenses of science, spirituality and story - hence the name of the show!
It is created for those who feel called toward a soulful life shaped by meaning, depth, truth, and love… for those who feel unsatisfied with quick answers or surface level takes. This is a rich rabbit hole that Lian journeys through alongside you. She speaks from her own lived experience and unfolding process… while inviting you into your own as you listen.
The LIVE making of All The Everything is recorded live on YouTube… to join Lian for the next one: Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel, subscribed to our Moonly News email list and/or are a member of our Facebook group and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening.
In this episode, Lian explores beauty not as something skin deep, but as a spiritual practice, tracing it from the evolutionary science of adornment through myth, history and her own teenage attempt to reconstruct herself in the image of Marilyn Monroe. She looks at the handicap principle behind why humans adorn themselves at all, research showing how self-surveillance breeds body shame, and what myths can show us.
She brings in the Jungian analyst James Hollis on making our projections conscious, the psychologist James Hillman's case that recovering our sense of beauty is how we recover our lost soul, and her own Beauty Archetype work exploring the Lover and the shadows of chasing beauty and abandoning it. She closes by mapping Venus, the Ascendant and Chiron in the birth chart, asking what your own placements might reveal about your particular path with beauty.
Listen if you either chase beauty for approval or dismiss it, and are wondering if there could be something deeper beyond both.
We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Why the same evolutionary instinct behind a forty thousand year old deer tooth necklace may be the same one now, but distorted, driving those anxious checks in the mirror
How the myth of Psyche and Aphrodite shows that even the soul and Goddesses aren’t exempt from beauty's pull or the envy of it
What happens when beauty is offered as a conscious devotion rather than performed for approval or discarded out of caution
Resources and stuff that we spoke about:
Watch the episode which explores the myth of Psyche and Eros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lx9PKm203c&t=705s
Register your interest in Beauty Potion https://wildsovereignsoul.com/beauty
To get your birth chart https://www.astro.com
Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@WildSovereignSoul, subscribed to our Moonly News https://wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly email list and/or are a member of our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul and we’ll let you know when the next one is happening.
Share what showed up for you listening to this show, including any questions, either in the Wild Sovereign Soul facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildsovereignsoul or in UNIO https://www.unioacademy.com.
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If you keep saying "yes" when your whole body is screaming "no", here's what's actually driving that, and what it takes to change it.
In this episode, Lian Brook-Tyler, goes back to where the "good girl" first learned her trade, the moments in childhood, somewhere around four, five, six years old, when a small child worked out that a "yes" could keep the peace, keep the love coming, keep a parent or teacher from turning cold. 
Lian looks at why that pattern stops feeling like a strategy and starts feeling like personality, and why the body carries it long after the mind knows the danger has passed.
Lian moves into why logic never wins the argument with her, why forcing, reasoning, or shaming that part rarely works, and what it actually takes, a slow build of inner authority, someone steadier for her to finally hand the reins to, and what it looks like to speak a "no" when that's the truer answer.
Listen if you've ever felt a real "no" rising in you, in a meeting, in a relationship, at the dinner table, and felt your throat tighten or your words soften before they leave your mouth.
We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.
What you’ll learn from this e:
Why the "good girl" was built to keep you safe rather than obedient, and why that distinction matters
How the body keeps running old calculations long after the literal danger has passed
What it actually takes to become someone she trusts enough to hand the reins to, and how that lets a true "no" get spoken
Resources and stuff that we spoke about:
Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth.
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Fermentation expert and author Kirsten K. Shockey joins Lian to explore what we lose when we stop fermenting our own food, why choosing inconvenience is becoming a countercultural act, and what microbes might be running more of the show than we think

Kirsten K. Shockey is a mother and grandmother who loves to plant trees and rescue beavers. When she isn’t playing or helping people to make, enjoy and connect with their food she can be found writing about life and fermentation at fermentingchange.substack from her home in the mountains of southern Oregon. 

Kirsten is the author of award-winning Homebrewed Vinegar, coauthor, with her husband, Christopher Shockey, of award-winning The Big Book of Cidermaking; award-winning Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments; Fiery Ferments; and the best-selling Fermented Vegetables and Fermented Vegetables second edition. 

She is co-founder of The Fermentation School a women-owned and women-led benefits corporation supporting the voices of independent educators to empower learning and build culture where you can find her online courses.

In this episode, Lian and Kirsten look at ‘friction maxing’, and why so many people are finding themselves drawn back to slower, harder, more hands-on ways of doing things, and what fermentation has to do with it. They talk about what it means to choose inconvenience, how the microbes we co-evolved with for millions of years are still shaping our cravings, our gut, our moods, and possibly even more, and what gets lost when we hand all of that over to a factory and call it progress.

The conversation moves into the fear that stops most people before they even start, the grief of skills that stopped being passed down, and what Kirsten has noticed about what happens to people once they have something alive and bubbling on their counter, how quickly it stops feeling like a hobby and starts feeling like something precious that they didn't know they were missing in their lives.

Listen if you keep finding yourself drawn to slower, older, more hands-on ways of doing things and you're not sure how to make that happen in your busy life, or if you already ferment and have noticed it feels like more than just a hobby, and are wondering what that could mean.

We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

Why the question fermentation folk keep coming back to is: who domesticated whom, us or the microbes?

How friction maxing can show up as inner or outer inconvenience and discomfort

What a single jar of something bubbling on a kitchen counter might be doing for a person's relationship with the living world

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

Visit Kirsten’s website https://ferment.works/

Visit The Fermentation School https://www.fermentationschool.com/

Kirsten’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kirstenkshockey/

Fermenting Change Newsletter https://fermentingchange.substack.com

Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth.

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Thank you for listening!

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Lian is joined by Jason Grechanik, a master tabaquero with nearly a decade of Amazonian immersion and over a thousand people guided through plant ceremony, to explore what it looks like to do a plant dieta with the trees of Celtic and Northern European tradition, why these trees are subtler to work with than Amazonian plants, and what people have healed through that extended relationship.
Jason Grechanik trained in the Mamankunawa tradition under curandero Don Ernesto Garcia Torres. He spent many years working at the renowned Shipibo healing center Temple of the Way of Light in Peru. He is the host of The Universe Within Podcast (180+ episodes, 20,000+ monthly listeners) and co-founder of the Nicotiana Rustica Project, a living practice that bridges Amazonian sacred tobacco traditions with Celtic tree wisdom. His background spans Ashtanga yoga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and herbalism.
In this episode, Lian and Jason explore what a Celtic tree dieta looks like in practice, from the diagnosis and the period of isolation, to the role of tobacco as amplifier, to the moment towards the end when the dieter finally learns the name of the tree they have been working with. 
They look at why these trees are subtle to receive, what opens a person enough to hear them, and how the physical medicine of a tree and its emotional and spiritual medicine turn out to be expressions of the same thing. Jason walks through the willow in some depth, its connection to grief, to water, to the lungs, to the underworld, and to what can begin to shift in a person when they spend extended time in relationship with it.
From there the conversation opens into what people have healed through this work, from Lyme disease and ovarian cysts to heartbreak and stagnation, and into Jason's sense of what these trees are ultimately offering, which is perhaps a felt sense of being at home in oneself, the way an oak or a willow simply is.
Listen if you've always felt drawn to a particular tree and wondered whether that pull means something, or if you've done plant medicine work before and found yourself curious about what's available closer to home.
We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Why the Celtic trees are worked with through the medium of tobacco, and what that amplification makes possible that the tree alone might not
How the physical properties of a tree, what it grows near, how it moves, what it heals in the body, are a map of its emotional and spiritual medicine
What happens in a dieta when the guide doesn't tell the dieter the name of the tree until the very end, and why that changes what gets received
Resources and stuff that we spoke about:
Visit Jason’s website https://jasongrechanik.com/
Nicotiana Rustica Project http://nicotianarustica.org/
The Universe Within Podcast https://jasongrechanik.com/podcast
Jason’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jasongrechanik/
Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/: This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth.
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Lian and psycho-spiritual researcher Bernhard Guenther explore spiritual warfare, what unseen forces actually are, how they operate through human consciousness, why most people have no map for recognising them, and what it takes to begin developing one.
Bernhard Guenther is a psycho-spiritual researcher, teacher, and guide whose work explores the deeper architecture of reality and the evolutionary challenges humanity faces during this Time of Transition.
Drawing on over two decades of study, practice, and inner work, he integrates esoteric wisdom, depth psychology, trauma healing, shadow integration, and a clear understanding of the spiritual and hyperdimensional forces that influence human consciousness.
He is the founder of Piercing the Veil of Reality and co-host of The Cosmic Matrix podcast with his wife, Laura Matsue Guenther. Through online courses, mentoring, articles, podcasts, and retreats, he helps sincere seekers cultivate discernment, embody their true nature, and align with their deeper purpose in a time of profound change.
In this episode, Lian and Bernhard explore spiritual warfare, what Bernhard calls the hyperdimensional matrix, the unseen forces and beings that influence human thought, desire, and perception, often without our awareness or consent. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner (Austrian esotericist and founder of Anthroposophy, a tradition of spiritual science), Sri Aurobindo (Indian sage and philosopher of Integral Yoga), and over two decades of direct experience, Bernhard maps the planes of creation through which these forces operate, how they target seekers specifically, and why expanding consciousness brings more contact with them rather than less.
The conversation moves into how spiritual warfare most commonly operates, not through dramatic possession but through subtle appeal to ego, blind spots, and the desire to feel special or already awake, how these forces can masquerade as divine guidance, and why the capacity to differentiate between what is yours and what isn't is more important than discernment alone.
Listen if you've ever gone down a rabbit hole of conspiracy or spiritual content and come out feeling more paranoid and less yourself, or if you keep getting derailed by thoughts and patterns you can't quite claim as your own.
We’d love to know what YOU think about this week’s show. Let’s carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Why these forces target seekers more than people who aren't doing any inner work, and what that contact tends to look like
How to tell the difference between a wounded inner part that needs integrating and something that has genuinely come in from outside
What Bernhard means by inner differentiation, and why it goes further than discernment alone
Resources and stuff that we spoke about:
Visit Bernhard’s website https://veilofreality.com/
Mastering spiritual warfare https://www.masteringspiritualwarfare.com/
Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth.
Wild Sovereign Soul
Join our mailing list: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/moonly
UNIO: The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls :https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/unio
Go Deeper: https://www.wildsovereignsoul.com/godeeper
Follow us on:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsovereignsoul
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Thank you for listening!
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